All Outputs (23)

Self-understanding and getting on with oneself: The overlooked importance of solitude for Gadamer’s Hermeneutics (2024)
Journal Article

The following offers a critical appraisal of the themes of self-directedness and self-relatedness in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. It does so through an examination of solitude as a moment of what I call self-solicitude which, while emerging from and respo... Read More about Self-understanding and getting on with oneself: The overlooked importance of solitude for Gadamer’s Hermeneutics.

Understanding the world holistically: Heidegger’s practical philosophy and the rethinking of transcendentality (2023)
Journal Article

Being human and being open: Heidegger’s radicalization of the transcendental after Husserl (2022)
Book Chapter

Heidegger was well aware of the importance of separating thematically the world of human experience from the conditions of its manifestation. Yet as phenomenologist he also recognized that the way of being of the human is itself constitutive of such... Read More about Being human and being open: Heidegger’s radicalization of the transcendental after Husserl.

The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: Gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity (2022)
Journal Article

The following examines the concept of time in Gadamer’s work, looking specifically at the role of artwork and festival as focal points of his temporal analysis. It is argued that the usual way of understanding Gadamer’s reflections on time as either... Read More about The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: Gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity.

Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses the self-other relation through Husserl's account of empathy and phenomenological encounter. While respecting the centrality and importance of the first-person character of subjective consciousness in Husserl's phenomenology, t... Read More about Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other.

Mortality, time, and the lessons of silence: A Hermeneutical analysis of give and take (2021)
Journal Article

The following will provide a hermeneutical examination of two experiences of time: time as taking-away and time as giving. It will attempt to address the interrelated issues of death, time, and the time of silence in order to see whether time should... Read More about Mortality, time, and the lessons of silence: A Hermeneutical analysis of give and take.

Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics (2021)
Book Chapter

Gadamer has been the viewed as follower, appropriator, and urbanizer of the wilder elements of Heidegger’s thought, with his explicit resistance to certain aspects of Heidegger’s thought often only present between the lines. This chapter examines Gad... Read More about Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics.

Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks (2021)
Journal Article

The following examines Hannah Arendt’s interpretations of Greek thought, specifically her phenomenological reading of Homer and Socrates as proto-phenomenological thinkers of objectivity, plurality, and logos. Drawing inspiration from these thinkers,... Read More about Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks.

Heidegger, Europe, and the history of "Beyng" (2021)
Book Chapter

Much more so than for his reflections on Europe, Martin Heidegger is known for his examination of the question of being (Seinsfrage). As the question that both guided the Western metaphysical tradition and – in Heidegger’s reading of this tradition –... Read More about Heidegger, Europe, and the history of "Beyng".

Linguisticality and lifeworld: Gadamer’s late turn to phenomenology (2021)
Journal Article

The influence of Husserlian phenomenology on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics has been the subject of some analysis in the secondary literature, with scholars emphasizing both Gadamer’s distance from traditional phenomenology as well a... Read More about Linguisticality and lifeworld: Gadamer’s late turn to phenomenology.

Dasein and world: Heidegger’s reconceiving of the transcendental after Husserl (2020)
Journal Article

The following examines Heidegger's analysis of world and Dasein from a transcendental perspective. It is argued that Heidegger's reflections on the interconnected themes of world and Dasein reveal the tensions that exist between the transcendental cl... Read More about Dasein and world: Heidegger’s reconceiving of the transcendental after Husserl.

The affects of rhetoric and reconceiving the nature of possibility (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at the genesis of Heidegger’s reflections on affect, embodied speaking together, the nature of possibility and the critique of actuality, which form the soil in which the later existential analysis of Being and Time sinks its roots... Read More about The affects of rhetoric and reconceiving the nature of possibility.

Negativity, finitude, and the leap in Heidegger’s contributions to philosophy (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines Heidegger's assessment of negativity and finitude in the late 1930s and his enlargement of these issues in the name of a leap from one type of philosophy, one type of beginning, to a wholly other beginning. The guiding concerns... Read More about Negativity, finitude, and the leap in Heidegger’s contributions to philosophy.

The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy (2016)
Journal Article

This article sets itself the task of explicating and assessing Heidegger's hermeneutically expansive analyses of the 'holy,' 'poetic expression,' and 'nature' in his 1934/35 and 1944 Hölderlin lectures. The piece looks specifically at how Heidegger... Read More about The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy.

The Blackwell Companion To Hermeneutics (2015)
Book

A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics.

- Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and crit... Read More about The Blackwell Companion To Hermeneutics.

Métaphysique, politique et nihilisme chez Heidegger et Jünger (2015)
Book Chapter

Dans une épigraphe ouvrant le volume 94 de la Gesamtausgabe(1), Heidegger cite le passage suivant du Théétète de Platon : « Panta gar
tolmêteon », que l'on pourrait traduire par « il faut prendre un risque en toute chose » ou encore : « il faut oser... Read More about Métaphysique, politique et nihilisme chez Heidegger et Jünger.

On the origins of illness and the hiddenness of health: A Hermeneutic approach to the history of a problem (2015)
Book Chapter

If health is definable as a dynamic equilibrium, then there needs to be some criterion for its re-establishment or restoration. For centuries this criterion has been identified as nature, a criterion which is not altogether unproblematic. It must be... Read More about On the origins of illness and the hiddenness of health: A Hermeneutic approach to the history of a problem.

Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger’s thought (2014)
Book Chapter

The ‘turn’ or ‘turning’ ( Kehre), which is used at various times and with
multiple meanings, is without doubt one of the most problematic (and least monochromatic) terms when it comes to understanding Heidegger’s work and its lexical horizon. The ef... Read More about Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger’s thought.

“Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought (2014)
Book Chapter

The ‘turn’ or ‘turning’ ( Kehre ), which is used at various times and with multiple meanings, is without doubt one of the most problematic (and least monochromatic) terms when it comes to understanding Heidegger’s work and its lexical horizon. The ef... Read More about “Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought.

The silence of the origin: Philosophy in transition and the essence of thinking (2013)
Journal Article

This article pursues Heidegger's protracted engagement with the question of silent origins. First, I explore the so-called transitional thinking grounded in the fundamental attunement of reticence as it is put forward in the Beiträge zur Philosophie.... Read More about The silence of the origin: Philosophy in transition and the essence of thinking.